UN climate scientists have called on world leaders to step up at Glasgow climate gathering Cop26 next month as a new report warns fossil fuel emissions are set to be double safe levels this decade.
The 2021 Production Gap Report, by leading research institutes and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), found governments’ fossil fuel production plans are dangerously out of sync with agreed limits.
The report measures the gap between governments’ planned production and the global production levels consistent with meeting the Paris Agreement temperature limits.
Established as a landmark victory for the climate movement, the CCC promised to hold governments to account. Today, it is understating the danger of climate chaos and impeding the radical action needed, says IAN SINCLAIR
As fossil fuels have had their day, JOSIE MIZEN makes it clear that it is now the government’s responsibility to initiate the transition to alternative employment in a manner that is organised, efficient and effective
Reaching co-operation is supposed to be the beginning, not the end, of global climate governance, argues LISA VANHALA


